ECWA
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
  • Our Watershed
    • What is a Watershed?
    • History of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed
    • Plants & Animals
    • Stories from the Watershed
    • Ellerbe & Me
    • Blog
  • Our Preserves
    • Overview
    • 17-Acre Wood
    • The Rocks
    • Pearl Mill
    • Glennstone
    • Beaver Marsh
  • Our Work
    • Overview
    • Protect
    • Restore
    • Engage
    • Advocate
    • Creek Smart​® >
      • About Creek Smart​®
      • Downspout Disconnection
      • Cisterns
      • Rain Gardens >
        • Siting
        • Designing
        • Installing
      • Support Creek Smart​®
  • About Us
    • Our People
    • Careers
    • Our Supporters
    • History of ECWA
    • Guiding Documents
  • GET INVOLVED
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    • Make Your Property Creek Smart
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We're In This
Creek Together

Join Us
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association plans to hold a routine prescribed burn in the interior of Glennstone Nature Preserve on Wednesday March 10, 2021.  The preserve will be closed for the duration of the burn. You may notice smoke in the preserve on the day of the burn and the trail entrances will be blocked when the burn is being conducted. Glennstone Preserve is home to a remnant Piedmont prairie which provides habitat for interesting and rare plants. By managing this preserve with controlled burns, we expect to see more plant and wildlife diversity return.
Watch the recording of the 2020 ECWA Annual Meeting Here.

COVID-19 UPDATE (03/01/2021): All five of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association public preserves (17-Acre Wood, Glennstone, The Rocks, Pearl Mill, and Beaver Marsh) remain open. We hope you are able to explore some of them. If you do, please keep at least 6-feet from other trail users. We're in this creek together!

​The 37 square miles of land that drain into Ellerbe Creek are known as its watershed. Most of this land is in the heart of Durham, North Carolina.

Who We Are

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The Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association is a nonprofit working to restore a healthy, living creek that connects people and nature in Durham. We protected our first six acres in 1999. Since then, we have acquired more than 450 acres, including five nature preserves that we manage for public recreation, water quality, and native plant and habitat restoration. 
LEARN ABOUT OUR PRESERVES »

How We Work

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Imagine a Durham where residents can walk or bike across the watershed, stopping at in-town nature preserves and local businesses along the way. This is ECWA's vision, and through land acquisition, work with the city, and public education, we are getting closer to realizing it every day.​
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LEARN ABOUT OUR IMPACT »
Visit an Ellerbe Creek Preserve
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Beaver Marsh

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Located between Club Boulevard and Interstate 85, Beaver Marsh is a beautiful oasis of green in an otherwise highly urbanized environment.
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Glennstone

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Glennstone Nature Preserve is an 83-acre woodland with about three miles of walking trails that connect to Falls Lake Game Lands and Ellerbe Creek.
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Pearl Mill

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The Pearl Mill Nature Preserve is part of a corridor of wetlands and floodplain woods that surround the East Branch of the South Ellerbe Creek.
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ECWA​
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association

Mail: PO Box 2679
Durham, NC 27715
Office: 2600 W. Carver St., Suite C 
Durham, NC 27705
919.698.9729
info@ellerbecreek.org
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​OUR WATERSHED

What Is a Watershed?
History of the Watershed
Plants & Animals
Stories from the Watershed
Ellerbe & Me




​OUR PRESERVES

Overview
Glennstone
Beaver Marsh
Pearl Mill
The Rocks
17-Acre Wood
Non-Public Preserves
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​OUR WORK

Overview
Protect
Restore

Engage
Advocate


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​ABOUT US

Our People

Our Supporters
History of ECWA
Guiding Documents
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​GET INVOLVED

Donate
Volunteer
Visit a Preserve
Creek Smart
Attend an Event
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  • Our Watershed
    • What is a Watershed?
    • History of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed
    • Plants & Animals
    • Stories from the Watershed
    • Ellerbe & Me
    • Blog
  • Our Preserves
    • Overview
    • 17-Acre Wood
    • The Rocks
    • Pearl Mill
    • Glennstone
    • Beaver Marsh
  • Our Work
    • Overview
    • Protect
    • Restore
    • Engage
    • Advocate
    • Creek Smart​® >
      • About Creek Smart​®
      • Downspout Disconnection
      • Cisterns
      • Rain Gardens >
        • Siting
        • Designing
        • Installing
      • Support Creek Smart​®
  • About Us
    • Our People
    • Careers
    • Our Supporters
    • History of ECWA
    • Guiding Documents
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer
    • Stewardship
    • Visit a Preserve
    • Make Your Property Creek Smart
    • Attend An Event
  • Donate